State Standards

Essential Academic Learning Requirements

http://www.k12.wa.us/curriculumInstruct/Arts/EALRs/EALRs.aspx

  1. The student understands and applies Arts knowledge and skills. To meet this standard, the student:
    1. Understands arts concepts and vocabulary
    2. Develops arts skills and techniques
    3. Understands and applies arts styles from various artists, cultures and times
    4. Applies audience skills in a variety of arts settings and performances
  2. The student demonstrates thinking skills using artistic processes. To meet this standard, the student:
    1. Applies a creative process in the arts:
      • Conceptualizes the context or purpose
      • Gathers information from diverse sources
      • Develops ideas and techniques
      • Organizes arts elements, forms, and/or principles into a creative work
      • Reflects for the purpose of elaboration and self evaluation
      • Refines work based on feedback
      • Presents work to others
    2. Applies a performance process in the arts:
      • Identifies audience and purpose
      • Selects artistic work (repertoire) to perform
      • Analyzes structure and background of work
      • Interprets by developing a personal interpretation of the work
      • Rehearses, adjusts, and refines through evaluation and problem solving
      • Presents work for others
      • Reflects and evaluates
    3. Applies a responding process to an arts presentation:
      • Engages actively and purposefully
      • Describes what is seen and/or heard
      • Analyzes how the elements are arranged and organized
      • Interprets based on descriptive properties
      • Evaluates using supportive evidence and criteria

    EALR #2 -The Creative Process of Creating, Performing and Responding, (CPR) from the NAEP and adapted with permission of Scott C. Shuler (c) 1993.

  3. The student communicates through The Arts. To meet this standard, the student:
    1. Uses the arts to express and present ideas and feelings
    2. Uses the arts to communicate for a specific purpose
    3. Develops personal aesthetic criteria to communicate artistic choices
  4. 4. The student makes connections within and across The Arts, to other disciplines, life, cultures, and work. To meet this standard, the student:
    1. Demonstrates and analyzes the connections among the arts disciplines
    2. Demonstrates and analyzes the connections between the arts and other content areas
    3. Understands how the arts impact lifelong choices
    4. Understands that the arts shape and reflect culture and history
    5. Demonstrates knowledge of arts careers and the role of arts skills in the world of wo